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-$Cambridge: exim/src/src/pcre/README,v 1.1 2004/10/07 13:04:13 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/src/src/pcre/README,v 1.2 2008/01/16 13:44:45 nm4 Exp $
 
 PCRE for use in Exim
 --------------------
 
-This directory contains a subset of the files from the PCRE distribution, 
-enough to supply regular expression support for Exim, plus the pcretest test 
-program. Do not start from here if you want to install PCRE as a free-standing 
-library for use by other programs. Get the full PCRE distribution, which can be
-obtained from
+This directory used to contain a subset of the files from the PCRE distribution.
 
-ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-x.x.tar.gz
+However carrying our own subset of PCRE, especially when the vast
+majority of systems now have PCRE as a system library, has become a
+liability, requiring exim to be manually updated whenever changes are
+made in PCRE.
 
-where x.x is the version number. This contains support for a POSIX interface to
-PCRE, a "grep" program that uses PCRE, and the means to build PCRE as a shared
-library. It is configured by autoconf, and has "make install" support in the 
-conventional way.
+PCRE can be found at http://www.pcre.org/
 
-Philip Hazel <ph10@cam.ac.uk>
-February 2000
+Nigel Metheringham
+January 2008